Speaking & workshops
AI without the hype, from someone who builds it.
I build with AI every day, and I teach teams to do the same. Invite me to show your people what's real, what's hype, and how to use it.
What I bring
Two kinds of session
Whichever room I'm in, the material comes from working with these tools every day, not from a slide deck.
For leadership teams
A working picture of AI
A plain picture of what AI does well today and what is still marketing. Your leaders leave able to tell the two apart, and knowing what to do next for their teams. Where the pressing question is why the tools went out and nothing changed, The Power User Gap goes deeper. Where the room then has to run the change itself, I work alongside them on the transformation and the change management after the session.
For engineering teams
Hands-on building
Workshops where your engineers build with LLMs, agents, and MCP. The named session on agents is the Agent Workshop, which goes further on your own systems. Practical, project-based, pitched at your team's level.
The workshop that travelled
Practical AI for Web Developers
A room of web developers, most of whom have never called a model API, and by the end of the session each of them has an AI feature working in a stack they already know. JavaScript or TypeScript, an API key and the browser. No machine learning background, no notebooks, no maths.
The written form is the free book, AI Engineering for Web Developers. The workshop covers the same ground with the room building instead of reading, and for teams who want to go further it leads into the Agent Workshop.
Bring it to your eventWhat your group leaves with
Clearer, and more capable
01
A plain picture
What AI does well today, and what's still marketing. From daily use, not a vendor's roadmap.
02
Working understanding
Enough understanding to make good calls (leaders) or to start building (engineers).
03
Where to start
The practical first steps that actually help, and the hype worth ignoring. No moonshots.
Why me
Technical depth, explained plainly
A lot of AI talks land in one of two camps: deeply technical sessions that lose the room, or futurist keynotes that paint pictures of 2040 but leave you with nothing to do on Monday. I aim for the middle, the substance of what's real today, in language your whole team can follow.
I build with AI every day: LLMs, agents, MCP, on-device models. What I share comes from that work. I've spent 25+ years making complex technology clear for non-technical audiences, and taught tens of thousands of people worldwide. Google Developer Expert, Agentic AI Foundation ambassador, MBA.
Invite me
Running a conference, a leadership session, or a team workshop? Tell me about your group and I'll tailor it.
Happy to start with a short call.